Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended CYGWIN SSH Rsync guide

2013-12-04 Thread Henry Burroughs
Wow! The main issue I see is it can only volume shadow copy the C drive.   I have other drives on some of my servers (ie: e, f) etc.   has anyone found a way around this? Henry B. burroughs, III Director of Technology St. John's Episcopal Parish Day School www.stjohnseagles.org On Tue, Dec

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended CYGWIN SSH Rsync guide

2013-12-04 Thread Kris Lou
You'll have to edit the scripts on the client machine to kick off VSS on additional drives. Then you'll edit the rsyncd mount points accordingly. If I recall, the applicable files are backuppc.cmd, vsrsync.cmd, and rsyncd.conf There are also differing versions of vshadow depending on your

[BackupPC-users] Backing up macs

2013-12-04 Thread Justin Best
I’m a user of BackupPC from way back (2005-ish). Love the product (thanks Craig!!) and I”m looking forward to hearing any experiences with 4.0 I’ve got a couple sites with about 10-15 Macintosh machines (OS X 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, and 10.9) that I’m considering using BackupPC at. Does anybody else

Re: [BackupPC-users] Recommended CYGWIN SSH Rsync guide

2013-12-04 Thread Henry Burroughs
John, That page you sent me was the key. After doing some reading, I have to run /usr/bin/cyglsa-config to get passwordless logins to get the tokens correctly. Thanks! On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:42 AM, John Rouillard rouilj-backu...@renesys.com wrote: Hello: On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up macs

2013-12-04 Thread Kris Lou
I haven't had any problems with backing up OSX clients via rsync over SSH. But then again, I only back up home directories, the largest being around 150GB. Perhaps you need more memory in your BPC server? Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Justin Best

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC for laptops?

2013-12-04 Thread Russell R Poyner
At my last job I built a BackupPC setup that worked well for windows desktops using vss and rsyncd. In my new position I'm looking for options for backing up laptops and tablets. Most of these machines rarely connect to our wired network or vpn. Which means they are normally separated by our

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC for laptops?

2013-12-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Russell R Poyner rpoy...@engr.wisc.edu wrote: At my last job I built a BackupPC setup that worked well for windows desktops using vss and rsyncd. In my new position I'm looking for options for backing up laptops and tablets. Most of these machines rarely

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up macs

2013-12-04 Thread Ray Frush
Like Kris, we back up a number of MacBooks here using rsync via ssh, and have never had an issue. Also like Kris, we only backup /Users which limits what we're backing up. Ray Frush Either you are part of the solution T:970.288.6223 or part of the precipitate.

[BackupPC-users] Fatal error during xfer / protocol incompatibility (code 2)

2013-12-04 Thread Andrzej
Hello, I have a BackupPC installation (v.3.2.1) on a Debian Wheezy and I'm trying to backup a bunch of files from Windows 2008 server. There is a 64bit cwRsync installed on the Windows side, running as a service. When I start the test run of the full backup, it breaks after a while, showing an

[BackupPC-users] Recommended CYGWIN SSH Rsync guide

2013-12-04 Thread SimonUtter
You'll have to edit the scripts on the client machine to kick off VSS on additional drives. Then you'll edit the rsyncd mount points accordingly. If I recall, the applicable files are backuppc.cmd, vsrsync.cmd, and rsyncd.conf I can confirm that this is correct. Just make sure you map you